Ancient Health: Skeletal Indicators of Agricultural and Economic Intensification (Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local Regional and Global Perspectives) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081303082X ISBN 13: 9780813030821

Verlag: University Press of Florida, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

COHEN, M. N. / G. M .M. CRANE-KRAMER, EDS. ANCIENT HEALTH. SKELETAL INDICATORS OF AGRICULTURAL AND ECONOMIC INTENSIFICATION. GAINESVILLE, FL, 2007, xxiv 433 p.,figuras. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

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"Pulls together a global sampling of excellent research on a topic of great interest to scholars of prehistory that otherwise would be difficult to assemble or in some cases to even access."

Reseña del editor:

Twenty years ago Mark Nathan Cohen coedited a collection of essays that set a new standard in using paleopathology to identify trends in health associated with changes in prehistoric technology, economy, demography, and political centralization. ""Ancient Health"" expands and celebrates that work. Confirming earlier conclusions that human health declined after the adoption of farming and the rise of civilization, this book greatly enlarges the geographical range of paleopathological studies by including new work from both established and up-and-coming scholars. Moving beyond the western hemisphere and western Eurasia, this collection involves studies from Chile, Peru, Mexico, the United States, Denmark, Britain, Portugal, South Africa, Israel, India, Vietnam, Thailand, China, and Mongolia. Adding great significance to this volume, the author discusses and successfully rebuts the arguments of the ""osteological paradox"" that long have challenged work in the area of quantitative paleopathology, demonstrating that the ""paradox"" has far less meaning than its proponents argue.

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• Verlag: University Press of Florida
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 081303082X
• ISBN 13: 9780813030821
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
• Herausgeber: Cohen Mark Nathan, Crane-Kramer Gillian Margaret Mountford